we are still paying our taxes. the only difference is that instead of sending them to the spanish authorities, we are sending them to the cathalon treasury. >> the village will pay its taxes to the catalon government, even though it will, in turn, have to forward them on to madrid. if people and other villages join us, we can reach a point where the pressure is high and off -- heidi enough to make the catalon government changed and not send it to the spanish treasury anymore. keeping that money, because in the end, it is ours. >> as the economic crisis has worsened here, the regional government has almost run out of money. that has galvanized support for the nationalist parties. they are campaigning have an important regional election this weekend. if they win, they say they want a referendum from -- on independence from spain. krul of the protest out in the countryside, these elections will be won or lost in the city. even here, nationalism is a potent force. but a lot of catalon companies do a lot of their busine